Trailblazers

Reaves Chapel in Navassa. (Julia Wall for The Assembly)

What can be done to protect and preserve the fractured remnants of southeast North Carolina’s rich Gullah Geechee heritage?

Where We Write

Sometimes to write about the people and places we love most, we have to get away. Chapel Hill fiction writer Daniel Wallace learned that when he set out to write This Isn’t Going to End Well.   

The ‘Prophet’ and the Backlash

Gene Nichol in front of the University of North Carolina School of Law building in Chapel Hill. (Cornell Watson for The Assembly)

UNC law professor Gene Nichol regularly scorches Republican leadership. It’s come at a price to the university.

Banking On A Global Catastrophe

Bank of America's headquarters in Charlotte. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton, File)

Bank of America made billions off the world’s most polluting industries. The effort to change its course on climate continues.

Phil Berger Sr.’s Plan for N.C. Courts

North Carolina Senate leader Phil Berger presides over Senate floor debate on May, 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Hannah Schoenbaum)

The budget Senate leaders released this week proposes several major changes to the courts and criminal justice system.

Divisions and Subdivisions

An aerial view of The Farm at Summerfield, a neighborhood developed by David Couch in Summerfield, N.C., pictured here on April 11, 2023. (Julia Wall for The Assembly)

A development fight has split the Greensboro exurb of Summerfield. The threat of state intervention might actually bring them together.